Alot of times people just don’t even realize what they’re saying. I pointed it out to my mother once after hearing her use the phrase “jew you down.” She had never even stopped to consider the origins of the phrase or that it had anything to do with jewish folks at all. She doesn’t use it now.

Actually , Casey, I think that folks up in Michigan and northern Indiana do SAY ‘welched’. That’s what everyone I know back home says. It wasn’t until I read the phrase in a book that I realized what it actually was and meant.

For what it’s worth, ‘welch’ is just another word for Welsh and in the case of the grape juice people it’s a surname meaning ‘from Wales’ in the same vein as the surnames ‘Scot’ and ‘Eyre’ (from Ireland)

hehe, well, my mom reads my other blog. I’m not sure I’m wanting her to know about the topic of my new one until I know for sure that it’s going somewhere longterm. She’s handling her son having one boyfriend pretty well these days. two might not be as easy for her to deal with though. I figured that I’d eventually comment on another wordpress blog signed in under the wrong name though.

Ooooh, Kat, doesn’t “Eyre” (also?) come from the Anglo-Norman legal term “in eyre” (which comes ultimately from the Latin eo, ire = to go)? Under Henry II, the institution of justices in eyre (judges who traveled around hearing cases, rather than forcing people to show up where the king was for legal matters) was crucial in establishing the Common Law (and in making royal courts cheaper, fairer, and more popular than baronial or ecclesiastical courts). And I thought that Eyre was a surname indicating (a claim of) descent from lawyers and judges on those circuits.

Okay now I’m intrigued. I didn’t know you were doing a multiple partners thing. I’m curious as to how that’s working. I’ll admit that when I saw the URL for the blog I assumed it was about having multiple CATS.

I am seriously doubting my IU professor now, because I understood the “Eyre” last name in Jane Eyre to be Irish (“Eire”) from her. She literally (ha! pun!) spent several full classes talking about the book as a pro-Irish treatise and an indictment of anti-Irish prejudice in the British Isles.

Ever since then I’ve just “known” that “Eyre”=Irish. But my knowledge was in error. Can I get that tuition money back?

Kat, hate to have totally derailed your post here, but you did ask so I figure you don’t mind me answering. I can’t really say how it’s going just yet because it’s just starting. We’re all proceeding cautiously at the moment, and I started the new blog to document the whole thing (mainly because the internet is practically void of information on such a thing).

And if it were about having three cats, I’d probably have titled it, “Three IS a crowd.” lol

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